help please ? ID OF WOODEN "Fence Post" Prop

[FUGLY]

Hello All

Please can you help ID a wooden prop.

Facts are :

It is 1610 mm tall

It has a red disc with RS N 46366 on it near the end nearest then hub

above that is stencilled RA 4065/RS

It is black and grey/blue. It has a metal spigot.

It is wood coated with a resiny type covering. It has abrass leading edge

It had previously been used as a fence post in a farmers field. (Near Buxton , Derbyshire, UK) Max width of blade is 30cm. Spigot is 150 mm in diameter

Can anyone advise please

[FUGLY]

some more pics

More pictures of prop

[Dave]

It's a mystery to me. Looks like WW2 or later vintage, and obviously one blade of a multibladed prop.

[Bob Gardner]

It's a Rotol prop blade from a Mk II and Mk IV Hurricane. Good Find!

Bob

[FUGLY]

Prop !

It's a Rotol prop blade from a Mk II and Mk IV Hurricane. Good Find!

Bob

That great news ! It sat in a farmers field for many years , and I ma glad it was saved.

If you have any close up pics of this type of prop fitted to a Hurri, I would love to see them !

Thanks

jim

[Bob Gardner]

'Morning Jim,

I don't have any particular photos of Hurricane props.

Yours was the standard variable pitch prop for the Hurricane.

From 1938 to 1940 they had a fixed pitch wooden two-bladed prop, no different in concept from props made in 1912. During 1940 the Rotol variable pitch prop came into use. (Rotol was a British prop company formed from the prop shops of Rolls-Royce and Bristol). Your blade is from the standard Hurricane prop of WW2, which comprised three blades, which were made of compressed wood impregnated with resin and covered in a superb waterproof black covering.

Any photo of a Hurricane with a three bladed prop is likely to show your type of blade.

With kind regards,

Bob